this is "nightline." >> tonight, free at last. one man's palable joy as he walks off of death row. >> thank, lord! >> we're there for his first steps. >> would you believe this is the first time i have been in the rain. >> in to a new life. >> in 30 years. >> we're also there as he comes to terms with a very changed world. >> that's where you have to put in the little code. >> mom -- >> plus, she's loud, proud and definitely a force to be reckoned. tonight, we are going on a hilarious ride with the social media sensation known as the crazy jewish mom and the adult daughter who gets up to 50 texts a day. and it is the interview everybody is talking about. tonight we have a special sneak

preview. >> it's going to be an emotional roller coaster but somehow i will get through it. >> diane sawyer one on one with bruce jenner airing tomorrow at 9:00 here on abc. but first the "nightline" five. >> today, something entirely new is being built in to bounty. dawn. new bounty with dawn. >> what a novel idea. >> just rinse and wring so you can blast through tough messes and pick up more. >> aren't we clever? >> thanks, ma'am. look at how much easier bounty with dawn cleans this gooey mess versus is sponge. bounty with dawn a

♪ good evening tonight you are

going to see a man feel the rain on his face for the first time in nearly 30 years. you'll also see him learn to use instagram and the atm. why? because he was just released from death row in a case that raises serious questions about race, class and america's justice system. for our new "nightline" series "firsts," here's my coanchor byron pitts. >> for 30 years anthony ray hinton was a dead man walking. thank you, jesus! thank you lord! >> reporter: but not now. family prayers answered. a dream no longer deferred. >> 30 years ago prosecution seemed to take my life from me. >> reporter: 58 years old hinton lived half of his life in a cage, hinton correctional facility in alabama. here men do time and time stands

still. today he is seeing and experiencing things for the first time in decades. >> when you were a kid and your daddy took you on a ride and you want to see everything. just be looking. make me really appreciate freedom more would you believe this is the first time i have been in the rain in 30 years? it feels wonderful. yes, it feels wonderful. >> reporter: we joined him as he began his rebirth of sorts. what's it like to be able to walk where you want to walk, when you want to walk? >> oh it's -- it's unbelievable. i really have to catch myself. >> oh my goodness. [ applause ] >> reporter: he's welcomed home. a party in hifrz his honor hosted by the equal justice initiative led by attorney bryan stevenson and his team of attorneys who fought for decades to win hinton's freedom. >> thank you for giving me my

life back. just being here as a team you can say that you got an innocent man off of death row. >> reporter: his nightmare began in 19885. ronald reagan was president, back to the future was a box office hit and two restaurant managers were shot dead at closing time just months aparpt. a third victim another man who survived the shooting helped to identify anthony ray hinton as the killer. you are a free man now. what does that mean to you? >> it means everything. you never think about your freedom until it is taken away from you. you couldn't put a price tag on it. >> reporter: even simple pleasures like the convenience of using a computer. >> heard about facebook and twitter. >> we have been putting pictures of you on instagram. there were over 3,000 people that liked this picture of you getting out. >> reporter: teaching him tho to use the atm for the first time

even though he doesn't have much money. >> that's when you have to put in a little code. >> $12 already. >> reporter: so much about the world has changed but the world without his mother. she died while he was locked away. >> it can't get no lower for me. i'm not ashamed, i'm proud. she was the love of my life. i didn't grow up with a father. so my mother was my father and my mother. and she did everything she could. >> reporter: he goes back to the home they shared together now abandoned. >> i hate to see it in this shape. >> reporter: i it's his first time there since the night it was all taken away. >> i was screaming mama mama and my mom got toward the vent and i just -- they had me in

handcuffs back here and i just did like that. and she went to screaming, what you got? what's going on? what you got him arrested for? why are these those handcuffs on my baby for? the detective said i have your momma's pistol. >> this is where his mother kept the .38 caliber pistol. they said it was the murder weapon. a persuasive expert he was not. >> his ballistics expert was blind. >> in one eye, that's correct. >> he asked how to turn on the machine. he couldn't see it. he had to ask somebody please help me. when they put him on the stand as my witness, they crucified him. i said, they are going to find me guilty. >> reporter: this document prepared by the state's ballistics experts indicates a number of questions about whether the bullet's matched the gun. the defense was never given this document.

>> mr. hinton actually pass ed a polygraph test when they first arrested him. passed it. he had an alibi. he was actually working in a warehouse when one of these crimes took place. >> reporter: tom dole was an alibi he was hinton's work supervisor back then. >> as far as i know he was sweeping the floor. >> reporter: sweeping floors 15 miles from the crime scene. >> he didn't do it. he was not gone long enough to do that if he was gone at all. >> reporter: hinton was sentenced to death. >> that shook my faith in the system. >> reporter: what was the bigger hurdle, class or race? >> no question class, poverty. because without the money to prove it -- i think had mr. hinton had the experts that we were ultimately bringing to this case he would not have been convicted. >> reporter: he was ordered to spend the remainder of his life in prison living in a 5x7 cell. >> pretty much in a fetal position because your feet hang over the bed.

you have a bed that is mounted to the wall and a toilet and that's what i lived in for 30 years. >> reporter: men had taken his freedom, not his soul. >> they took me 30s, my 40s, my 50s. but what they couldn't take was my joy. i couldn't do a thing about the years, but i could control my joy. >> reporter: 53 inmates were executed in holman while hinton row. >> my dogs remember so many people i got to know be executed. >> reporter: he languished in prison for years before his case reached appeals court. >> i had never been so convinced of someone's innocence than i had in plin mr. hinton's case. >> reporter: the judge was one of those appellate court judges that believed the story. >> there was no incriminating

evidence, nothing from the robbery, no finger prints. >> reporter: his appeal denied but his team kept fighting. >> we had exhausted every state court appeal and the united states supreme court finally intervened. >> reporter: the result was a new trial, the break hinton had been waiting for. a few weeks ago, the state of alabama dropped the case after a new look at the evidence could not match the bullets to the gun, and hinton was released. but one man's joy, another's heart ache. the son of one of the victims declined our request for an interview, releasing the statement. all the stories are saying he is innocent and he was not. he was never proven innocent. he will be judged by god. >> he will see true justice one day, god will show him that i didn't do it. this is my first piece. >> reporter: how does it taste? >> good. >> reporter: he hasn't lost his sense of humor. >> since i have been longed up 30 years and finances is tight,

$5 a slice. >> reporter: i don't sense bitterness. why is that? >> bitterness kills the soul. i cannot hate because my bible teaches me not to hate. i've seen hate at its worst. what would it profit me to hate? well, i think my next big project is to try to get the money to restore my momma's house and this will be a place i can lay my head and call it my own and give it the respect that i know she would be proud of. >> reporter: freedom he is learning has never been free or easy. for "nightline," i'm byron pitts in montgomery alabama. up next here we go inside the red-hot ridiculous vortex of the newly minted internet slek celebrity known as crazy jewish mom.

why her constant texting to her daughter has made her a viral sensation. comedian. and i'm arnold palmer, professional golfer. know what we have in common? we talked to our doctors about treatment with xarelto®. me, when i had a blood clot in my leg that could have traveled to my lungs. that's why i took xarelto®, too. xarelto® is proven to treat and help reduce the risk of dvt and pe blood clots. i took xarelto® for afib... an irregular heartbeat that can lead to a stroke from a blood clot. xarelto® is proven to reduce the risk of stroke in people with afib, not caused by a heart valve problem. hey, well i'm glad we got together. for people with afib currently well managed on warfarin there is limited information on how xarelto® and warfarin compare in reducing the risk of stroke. i tried warfarin before, but the blood testing routine and dietary restrictions had me off my game. tell me about it. let's see, golf clinic, or blood clinic? ooh, that's a tough one. not this time. not with xarelto®. anything else? i'll have another arnold palmer. ok. make mine a kevin nealon. really, brian?

hey, safety first. like all blood thinners, don't stop taking xarelto® without talking to your doctor as this may increase your risk of a blood clot or stroke. while taking xarelto® you may bruise more easily and it may take longer for bleeding to stop. xarelto® may increase your risk of bleeding if you take certain medicines. xarelto® can cause serious bleeding and in rare cases may be fatal. get help right away if you develop unexpected bleeding unusual bruising, or tingling. if you have had spinal anesthesia while on xarelto® watch for back pain or any nerve or muscle-related signs or symptoms. do not take xarelto® if you have an artificial heart valve, or abnormal bleeding. tell your doctor before all planned medical or dental procedures. before starting xarelto® tell your doctor about any conditions such as kidney, liver, or bleeding problems. xarelto® has been prescribed more than 11 million times in the u.s. and that number's growing. like your guys' scores. with xarelto® there is no regular blood monitoring, and no known dietary restrictions. treatment with xarelto® was the right move for us. ask your doctor about xarelto®. you may be able to get up to 12 months at no cost.

modern technology is aiding and abetting overbearing parents and some pretty eye popping ways. we heard about a dad who follows his daughter's walk to school using a drone. tonight you will meet a woman who texts her daughter so much and in such outrageous ways it has made her a social media sensation. >> okay. i want to show you something. don't say no. >> what? >> just come over and look. we need to get spanx for you too. >> mom i have spanx. >> reporter: a lot of mother and

daughters have intensely close relationships. >> i'm not going to say your size but i will whisper your size. >> reporter: it would be hard to be more hard core than kate siegel and her daughter kim. >> garter belt. >> they are not in. >> how many times a day does she text you? >> 50. >> you are exaggerating? >> no, probably 50. >> i said i would try on one bra. >> no, this is a bralet. >> one example unless you are carrying my grandchild, go toe gym. happy birthday spawn welcome to the wrong side of 25. the ex pir ration date on your eggs is officially in sight tick tock. as you may have noticed men, relationships and eggs are major themes in kim's texts. this is your first television network interview and we are discussing your eggs. >> it is great. thank you.

>> reporter: the intensity and hill larryity of the exchanges that kate decided to make a instagram account called crazy jewish mom where she posts the biggest doozies. it has a hl half million followers. >> i don't understand why people are interested in oh people's texts to their kids. >> i can answer it. >> why? >> you say crazy things. >> it is good advice. >> it is a lot. >> yes. >> kim friedman takes helicopter parenting to a new level. she yufzed to be a big time hollywood director working on shows such as "the love boat," "star trek" "deep space nine beverly hills 90210 and left it all. >> they showed up to my college dorm room and i didn't know they were coming. >> there was somebody in the college dorm room but i won't go

there. >> reporter: a boy? >> we're not going there. >> could be. >> we're going to stop -- >> we were there early in the morning. i will let your imagination go from there. >> reporter: her mom embraced texting as the way of reaching kate at all hours. we spent a saturday with them and during one 20-minute period when they were apart, kate received 11 texts, three pictures mostly as her mom went shopping on her behalf. >> oh, this is cute. can i take a picture of you in the top? >> of course. >> and send it to her. >> let me get your front. okay. >> reporter: one of kim's primary occupations in these texts is the fact that kate's boyfriend, who kim calls super jew, has not proposed after more than a year of being together. here we go. kate omg, i foind the perfect guy for you on j date. what, mother tell me you didn't

make a profile on that site. omg, do you use pictures, take it down fwhou. why, super jew's days are numbered. he is 29 looking to settle down and went to cornell i know not ideal but he is gorgeous. all caps, reply. this is identity theft. >> it is. right? fair. >> when do you want to go out with him lights camera ovaries. >> that's fair. >> given your vocal criticism of super jew, whose actual name i don't know how do you get along with him when you see him face to face. >> i like him. he knows i like him. >> but you want him out of my daughter's life. >> either seal the deal or move on so she can date and meet other people and him too. >> reporter: other recurring fixations from kim's texts include her disapproval of kate's apartment that she refers to as a death trap. >> this is what i see, the trash bags here and trash cans here.

it's lovely. always opened. never locked. oh god. look up here. >> i can replace it. it's not the end of the world. >> okay. that doesn't work. so there's a fire and the fire is in the kitchen. there's no exit out here. so i bought her fire system there it is. little girl climbing down the thing, that could be you. >> reporter: spend enough time around kim and you realize she is always directing. >> i see the camera. >> what are youdoing? >> i don't see the camera up high enough. >> reporter: and always mothering, including our videographer. >> aren't you hungry? no, no, eat something. you need to eat. >> reporter: if you want to take the most sympathetic view of kim's obsessive texting, the hammering over what kate eats. >> i think i will get the meatballs. >> wait a minute, where's the meatballs. >> it is protein and delicious. >> do not overwhelm. >> no.

>> her constant concerns over her physical safety. >> i went to a gun store and asked for a rape whistle. [ whistling blowing ] >> if you want the most sympathetic view what is going on here is unbridled, possibly somewhat unhinged maternal adoration. here's what comes through to me. love you love each other. >> she's my bachbl i will kill anybody that hurts me. >> let's not do this. no death threats. >> just one mom's idiosyncrasy and maybe crazy crusade for her daughter's health, well being wardrobe. >> can i put on my clothes? >> i want to show you one thing. >> reporter: and love life. >> do you have any brothers? i was just -- >> i do have a younger brother. >> is he married? >> can we not actually do this? >> nice try. i suppose it is flattering. does your mom text you too much.

share the craziest stories with us on our "nightline" facebook page. we'll be right back. >> announcer: abc news "nightline," brought to you by pfizer. more successful. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix helped reduce my urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. some people had seizures while taking chantix. if you have any of these stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix or history of seizures. don't take chantix if you've had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these stop chantix and see your doctor right away as some can be life-threatening. tell your doctor if you have a history of heart or blood vessel problems or develop new or worse symptoms. get medical help right away if you have symptoms of a heart attack or stroke. decrease alcohol use while taking chantix. use caution when driving or operating machinery. common side effects include nausea trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. chantix absolutely helped me quit

smoking. ask your doctor if chantix is right for you.

finally tonight, rarely does an interview provoke as much public curiosity as diane sawyer's sit down with bruce jenner that airs tomorrow on abc. here now abc's amy robach has a sneak preview. >> reporter: the interview the world is waiting to hear. bruce jenner talks about his thoughts and his worries. >> it's going to be an emotional roller coaster but somehow i will get through it. >> reporter: his journey and future. >> i want to know how the story

ends. you know? how does my story end? >> reporter: it's a question so many have been asking with speculation and rumors about jenner hitting a fevered pitch over the last few months. >> it made me who i am. >> reporter: jenner has been in the public eye since 1976 when he became an instant celebrity, winning the olympic decathlon and known as the world's greatest athlete. and then in 2007 reinventing reality star on "keeping up with the kardashians." step father of four and father of six he plans to open up to diane sawyer it is that family he worries about now. >> those are the only ones i'm concerned. i can't let myself hurt them. >> do not miss that interview on "20/20" tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern here on abc. we will have more tomorrow night on "nightline." we thank you for watching "nightline" tonight. tune in to "gma" first thing in the morning and as always we are

on-line 24/7 on our facebook page at abcnews.com. thank you for watching and good night. hey. dedebra: hi, robert. hello. robert, this is my friend amy. we used to work at the p.r. firm together. this is robert ray's brother. ray's brother? so you're a police sergeant. your wife must get worried sick about you. well, not as sick as she used to. we're divorced. oh. i'm sorry. will ya look at my gals? i call them the two musketeers. that's stupid.

ohgod, i keep forgetting what a freak show this family is until somebody new comes in and looks at us like that. i have an announcement to make, and you might as well hear it from me. amy and i... we already heard. she dumped you. every time i date some other guy i keep thinking of you. yeah. me, too. where are we going? the bedroom. w-w-wait. we've never... and you've never, ever... are you sure? i'm sure.